I’ve been needing to get back to eating raw for so long now, and yet I haven’t had enough motivation or inspiration to do so. Now though I have been reading lots, specially Shazzie’s Detox Your World and am partway through The Sunfood Diet Success System (I stopped when Shazzie’s book arrived, which I then took on holiday with me!).

I’ve noticed the ill-effects I get from alcohol lately. It probably doesn’t help that the red wine I drink is a very cheap one, and the brandy I had last night was very cheap too and I only bought it for the Yule Pudding and Cake I made at Samhain. I’ve noticed red wine makes me get an itchy eye, and that the brandy brings on a mild asthma attack – enough that I need to take my reliever inhaler. If those aren’t warning signs that I should sit up and take notice of, I don’t know what is.

Got back from a week in North Devon yesterday. I weighed myself this morning and was dismayed at the number on the scales. 148lbs! I know that 3lbs went on over the past week, and the reason being the poor diet I had for that week. We got takeaway chips 3 evenings and some days we skipped lunch and ate cakes and things instead. Oh well, a last splurge prior to my new regime.

Woke up this morning and decided I would not eat until I felt I was ready. I wasn’t ravenous or anything, so when I was ready it was about 10:55am and I ate a red grapefruit. I ate it in 2 halves with a spoon and it was delicious.

By 12:30pm I was starting to feel hungry again, and I really wanted to eat some raw greens so I shredded finely several leaves of savoy cabbage, tossed in some rocket, and my husband and I tucked into it with some brazil nuts on the side. I ate about 10 brazils and drank some warm water. I’ve had quite a lot of water today. The savoy cabbage was quite nice actually, a bit hard going but I felt I was doing myself some good by eating that way.

I’ve since had the last of my goji berries (only about 10g) and a Date, and have had lots of water today and no tea whatsoever. I have a bit of a headache now, despite our regular tea being decaffeinated. It might be to do with the brandy too. I’m going to make a cooked meal this evening because we didn’t intend to go 100% raw overnight. I will be having mine with the leftover Rocket and a little cooked basmati rice instead of the oven fries the rest of the family are having – just to bulk out the meal more than anything and ensure I have plenty of calories today. I’ll have a large orange afterwards.

I need to plan the menu for the next few days, along with whatever I will be giving to the kids.